Bugs Bunny, the Smurfs, Tom & Jerry, Homer Simpson, Eric Cartman, Peter Griffin, Stewie,... : all kinds of cartoon characters that made millions of people put a smile on their face for the last couples of decades.

All these cartoons were drawn, and your goal in this contest is to make them "alive", a depiction of how they would look like in real life. You can only use photos to achieve this and you can only pick out animation cartoons which are originally made in 2D/drawn (so no 3D cartoons allowed). The photo-transformed cartoon can be from the old animations or from nowadays, as long as they look like the original ones, as much as possible.

Contest Moderator: Exceptional for this contest, copyrighted images are allowed as reference. ( 5 years and 1275 days ago )

arca: Does this have to be a "movie" cartoon or can it be a comic strip/book cartoon character? ( 5 years and 1273 days ago )

wazowski: @ Arca, I mentioned 2D animation characters, because they mostly are "simply" drawn. I know that there are also "simple" comic book drawings, but wouldnt know where to draw the line between simple and complex drawings. All this, because my idea is to make a character 3D "real" (as in, real hair, real skin, real lips, but all in style of the animation drawings), based on something simple 2D . Btw I use " " for simple, because the lines only look simple, of course it's not easy to design and animate such character ( 5 years and 1273 days ago )

jadedink: can there be more than one character in the chop? ( 5 years and 1271 days ago )

Drivenslush: Do we have to use Photos? or can we draw it directly out of PS (like a DD challenge) just asking ( 5 years and 1271 days ago )

langstrum: This theme was used in Worth1000 contests several times and I think it might be helpful that we take a look on them before judging our contest entries on the creativity and execution: http://effects.worth1000.com/contests/21525/reality-cartoons-3 http://effects.worth1000.com/contests/19342/reality-cartoons-2 and more, you can find them in the bottom of the related contests. Also, that's the good references on how a cartoon characters can be transformed into reality. ( 5 years and 1271 days ago )

wazowski: @ D-slush: Mainly photos, perhaps some retouching with PS drawing, but drawing all wouldnt make much sense for this contest, because I wanna see cartoons with real skin, eyes, etc. @Langstrum: THere are some funny ones there, also some less funny... @J-dink: Sure, go ahead! ( 5 years and 1271 days ago )

jawshoewhah: I'm thinking the best etries would be those cartoons that are actually human but there's some pretty good entries so far. ( 5 years and 1271 days ago )

gopankarichal: In this contest humanization of the cartoon character is allowed or not? If the character is originally human there is no problem. But I found some entries used human look for the cartoon characters, originally it is not. As per the contest goal making them alive is the task.I need a clarification from wazowski or from the moderator. ( 5 years and 1270 days ago )

wazowski: Although I'm not completely sure what you mean with humanization, the idea of this contest is that you make/rebuild a cartoon character, using real pictures as texture (for skin, hair, eyes, clothes, etc) but trying to go as close in drawing style of the original character. See the link of Homer as good example . Other example (didnt see this one yet) Daffy Duck. He'd have real feathers, but in the cartoon he also has "real" arms/fingers (instead of wings). I hope it's more clear now ( 5 years and 1270 days ago )

Alan2641: many stunning works here -- congrats to all for some really great work ( 5 years and 1267 days ago )

Reserving my vote, really need to see a sbs for this . this is VERY well done but I also cannot see the sources in it.

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CMYK46 http://www.pxleyes.com/photoshop-picture/4ca3b3cd8dc28/Dick-Dastardly.html look closer i changed every bit that the copyrighted images used. the coat the button the end of the chin the side burns the hat. most of the face was made from the other sources already listed in the comments section of the first entry

really want to know how you do this, its super and for sure i will learn from this if u are so kind and provide sbs, and i say thys becouse i saw the source files and i have no ideea where and how you used ! good luck!

sorry one of the source links isnt working and i missed one as i kept it in another folder for an earlier photoshop project. here they are.. http://www.sxc.hu/photo/1045180 thanks to mtbrg.
http://www.sxc.hu/photo/194818 thanks to mforman.

this is very nice,......if only the sbs is here,.......and are you sure about the BG? I mean ( just IMO ), it would be better change it by colorful BG like like night life in a metro city pic or glam party or something,........

You could find a real face and distort it. That's better because the skin on the face now is not fitted to the real body (but the eyes, nose and mouth are good). Also, her "decorations" could be replaced by the real things, it will be much more convincing. Still a good entry and eye catching, good luck
EDIT: I didn't know it's you

Nice job on the face, if you could tweak her body a bit more would make it only better (a bit rounder here & there and perhaps also squeeze-scale it vertically a bit). I agree with the real earrings and bracelet. Good luck!

PS not sure how you made the hair but I'd make it a tiny bit lighter so you can see the shape of the strings a bit better.

I think you could have put a lot more effort into acheiving a more detailed and believable face, right now I think the difference between the head and the body are apparent in terms of realism... facial parts could easily be constructed from your source images to give it more definition and marry up better with the rest of your scene... just my opinion

I really like this one ...not really a suggestion just a thought ... it would be interesting to see her more monochromatic ... the original Betty Boop was mostly Black and White ... she was barely even grayscale. In this case I am not sure how that would work but it would be fun to see it that way and compare the two.